Humidity and Summer Weather
 

I would love advice as to how to deal with the summer weather in The Villages. I purchased my home in The Villages in March. I thought my house in CA would sell quickly and I would be moving before the extreme heat and humidity. It looks like I'll be moving there when the weather is at its worst. I haven't lived with humidity for 22 years. The humidity where I live is close to 0%. I can handle dry heat, but humidity and heat is my kryptonite!

Well....

We have toughed it out for 6 years--but this summer=we're getting out of Dodge--going to the NC mountains, when we lived up north we were prisoners of heating systems in the winter, here we are prisoners of a/c--at another Fl location our a/c needed repair--had to check into a hotel

I have found that wherever I have lived, be it hot and humid or cold, my body adjusted after about a year. Give it time.

I remember hot August nights in our un-airconditioned house in Ohio with a damp "warshrag" to try to keep you cool enough to fall asleep. I remember the stained glass windows open at our local church in July with those fans that had a funeral home advertisement. (It may have been reason for a good many people remembering the commandments when they needed to. ) I remember when my Uncle would say occasionly that some people would "go to Hell and want Ice Water.

I remember wading in Buckeye Lake with muck up to our knees. ( I still shiver about that memory). I remember that school rooms in September were so hot that the teacher would pull down the blinds and have us rest our heads on the desk for awhile every afternoon.

It is hotter and more humid here than any place I have lived, but I still love it.

I have lived in NY, Texas, MS, GA, IL. They are all humid places. I have memories similar to yours. We would wear our new sweaters to school to show them off and about die in September! I remember many sleepless nights without air conditioning in NY.

I'll stay in a cool bathtub until then! Unpacking boxes, etc. in that heat will be difficult. Maybe I should just let the boxes all sit there until October. Ha!

Thanks for the encouragement!

Eventually I will probably do the same- find someplace cool to escape to until the worst of it is over.

Which is why ALL the houses come equipped with air conditioners. It is said...summer here is like winter (only opposite time of year). You go from "air" to "air"...do your activities in the early part of the day or later on. Our Spring and Fall here is lovely...and sometimes the winter months too.

I'm sure it will all be worth it. I will love the rest of the year!

Shopping in the morning and happy hour in the afternoon heat at your favorite patio.

I have been dealing with this for many years. Outside activities in the morning and evening, indoor activities in the afternoon and early evening. Still beats the alternative of shoveling snow in winter!

Having moved here from Pleasant Hill, I know your trepidation perfectly. The day I left California, it was 107. The day I arrived here, it was 83 and I KNEW I was going to die from the humidity. The next morning, I was back on the road. Figured if I had to adjust to humidity, might as well have some fun and the boxes could wait. Went to New Orleans for three days. Took my time unpacking when I got back.

Fourteen years later, I still hate the humidity but have discovered I can survive it. As has been said, don't go out the hottest part of the day, drink lots of fluids, relax and enjoy.

Hate, hate, hate the humidity, but love living in TV. Spoke to a friend in Maine this morning, wet and miserable and has the wood burning stove going, and black flies are the worst in several years, quickly followed by mosquitoes. Yea, I'll take our weather.

By the time September comes around and you really think you are going to kill yourself because this humidity is never going to end, you walk outside one morning and everything has changed ............. the air itself has changed, it's cooler and smells different.

Actually this year the humidity has not been bad. Yesterday afternoon it was 91* with 27% humidity. We find that every year the weather is different.

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do you shag too

the first 5 summers here were nice but the last six summers have been unbearable. my wife suffers more than me

Don't forget going to the pool!

Runicon, I shagged a few times and ended up with a daughter that names the rats that she feeds to her pet python after me. I don't shag anymore.(but I did like it)

Not picking on you Paul but will use your standard analogy to make a point. How many days did you really shovel snow? How many days was it unbearable to go out in the winter ? Been in both places. Summer in Florida - cabin fever much worse than up north winter. Every day has no relief in Florida summers. I get heat rash picking up the newspaper in the morning in summer. The right answer is get out of Florida in the summer. If that's not in the cards for you be very careful about what your doing. Rent for the month of July or August before committing yourself.

So far, no one has mentioned the problems you will have living in very humid conditions. Your joints will start to ache, and by the first month you will be limping around. In five years, you will not have the use of your hands either. After arriving here from California, I started limping right away, 2 people on my block had achilles tendon issues, and another needed a hip operation. What a coincidence! Could this be the weather? Look it up; humidity causes painful joint problems.

Well, hate to say so but you may be moving the wrong place unless you plan to only get outside early or after dark.

Correct. When we lived in Florida, the only time we could pick up our mail at the kiosk, which was a block away, was early in the am after it had cooled some during the night.

As we get older, our skin gets thinner, making us more sensitive to heat and humidity.

In all reality between June 1 to Oct 1 the weather here is brutal, without a/c the only people who be living in Fl would be the Seminoles-

You can't tolerate heat/humidity-and you moved to Florida?

Ha, ha........You forgot to mention humid conditions causing hemorrhoids and erectile disfunction and everything else.
I've lived in Florida for 64 years mostly in south Florida with a lot more humidity than here and I can assure you that most people in south Fla. are not limping around.

While the 'dead of summer' is definitely brutal here, living in Florida for a number of years now...I still prefer it over the 'dead of winter' where I used to live. :D

Vacation
 

A lot of TV residents take a "vacation" in July or August. A few even come to visit us in Illinois. It is hot and humid sometimes in Illinois but it's not all summer and not quite as severe or lengthy as in TV.

I can remember the hot humid summer nights growing up in Southern Illinois without AC. Our (my brother and I) bedroom was upstairs and a few nights in summer we slept on pallets in the living room with window fans. Oh, the good ol' days! It is cool with AC and you just get things done in early morning or late in the day. We adapt, modify, adjust and acclimate.

Thanks for the advice Rusty but I lived seven years in South Florida and 4 years in Houston TX (if you want to talk about hot and humid) I also have lived for 25 years in the Raleigh NC area and own 2 condos in Myrtle Beach SC where I have been many times during the summer. . I have been in hot humid weather most of my life. Now that I am retired, we may actually buy a place up north for the winter in a year or two. Last year I spent 6 weeks in upstate NY and it was miserably hot and about half the people we visited had no A/C. If we get a place up there it will definitely have central air. I hate snow and winters. We owned a home in the country for 6 years in Pennsylvania and I commuted 25 miles each way to work. Absolutely miserable. I went to college at the State University of NY at Oswego. Have you ever heard of lake effect snow ? Have you ever seen 10 feet of snow dropped in a weekend ? Have you ever felt what it fells like when the wind chill factor is -80 degrees with the winds coming off of Lake Ontario ? Oh, I have experienced plenty of cold in my life and I still prefer not having to shovel snow and dealing with the summers in the south.

I've seen close to ten feet of snow fall in a weekend - and unless you were at Tug Hill on that weekend you didn't since that was a record in northern NY. And yes it can get hot and humid in Binghamton NY once in a while. The point is hot and humid is EVERY day EVERY minute in Florida in summer. And there are people that love that. I'm one that can not function like that. It made me a prisoner to my house. Never have I had that experience in winter up north. My point is if your plan is to live in Florida year round you should try it out first in the hot times. Most people try it out during winter - well that's only half the story.

Good for your skin!

Paul - I missed the part about Oswego. Yes I remember that snow event and I also think it was the same weekend that The Tug got the ten feet. And that beat Oswego that weekend but Oswego got the award for most snow in 48 hours in a populated area. I'm very familiar with Oswego. Have a daughter that's an Oswego grad. You are going to have a hard time convincing me Oswego is hot and humid in the summer other than one or two days. Most of the time mother would say do you have your jacket ? You can always take it off.

Good news, humidity has only been in the mid-60% range so far... 😤

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I've lived in FL over 40 years - if you're not on the coast during the summer, it's tough. Most people try to avoid being out much, & go from A/C in the car to A/C in the restaurant to A/C at home. There's typically no breeze at all. I'd recommend, if you're really considering FL, to think about being near to the ocean - it's still hot & humid, but the air movement makes it bearable, to me. I'm moving back there this summer!

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Humidity
 

I'm not saying this is incorrect but just wondering-----are there any valid studies to support this?

Wow, I can't even think about moving to another place! Thanks for your advice, though!

I have never danced the Shag. I'm sure I would love it since I love all dancing.

Ooh, you just reminded me of the flys, mosquitos and gnats in NY. Yuck!